New Beginnings!

If you recall, Sam lost his first (top) front tooth back in July. Well it only took 7 weeks for him to finally lose the other!

He pulled it out the day before school started, which was 3 weeks ago!! Unfortunately the tooth fairy completely forgot to pay him a visit and he was surprised to find his tooth the next morning right where he left it, under his pillow. "It must be because you crawled into bed with me in the middle of the night Sam... the tooth fairy didn't know where you were." Sam took care of that the next night. Before climbing into bed with me he pulled the tooth out from under his pillow and left it out in plain view so that the tooth fairy was sure not to miss it. Thankfully she didn't.

"three tomatoes are walking down the street- a poppa tomato, a momma tomato, and a little baby tomato. baby tomato starts lagging behind. poppa tomato gets angry, goes over to the baby tomato, and smooshes him... and says, catch up!"

September already. Who knew summer would go so fast.... which is pretty much what everybody says, every year, at about this time. It was a busy one... and before we get into all things school & routine I wanted to do some "catching-up" from the summer. There are a couple of things I never got around to sharing.

peaches & green beans

Old Forge, NY

Charlebois family adventure day one. Up at 7am. The aim was to leave home by 10 and I think we actually managed to get out of the house by 10:30, which is an AMAZING feat for my family of slo-mo's. Not a bad start... But by the time we hit the 401 a whole 2kms away it was just after noon. That's more like our schedule. Taking too much time to do the simplest of errands. We managed to merge and accelerate to almost 80kms/hr before we hit traffic at a standstill. Construction. Fabulous. There's another 25 minutes tacked on to our already 90 minute, 3km voyage.